Appeal No. 2003-1841 Page 4
Application No. 09/272,956
Claims 1, 2, 4-14, and 16-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious
over U.S. Patent No. 5,965,655 ("Suzuki") and U.S. Patent No. 5,416,831 ("Chewning").
OPINION
Rather than reiterate the positions of the examiner or the appellants in toto, we
focus on the main point of contention therebetween. The examiner admits, "Suzuki et al
fail to download the information representative of the state machine from a switch of the
system into the terminal." (Examiner's Answer at 3.) He finds, however, that "Chewing,
III et al teach a method for downloading the information representative of the state
machine (e.g. softkey function definitions) from a switch of the system (13) into terminal
(14) (see figures 1, 11; column 6, lines 16-68 and column 11, lines 25-40)." (Id. at 6.)
The examiner concludes with the following assertions.
It would have been obvious to have modified Suzuki et al with the teaching
of Chewning, III et al, because Suzuki has been suggested the information
representative of a portion of a state machine (e.g. a name and a
telephone number) can be downloading from a switch of the system into
the terminal (see figures 24; column 24, lines 50-68; column 25, lines 1-5
and column 26, lines 15-19), and downloading information from a switch
system to a terminal (a telephone) would be more convenient or easy than
prestoring those information in the terminal since a switch system would
not need to consume the power of the portable terminal for operating a
memory, so that it would extend the durable time of the battery in the
portable terminal (see column 25, lines 45-56) and the information could
be easy to modified or changed in the switch system
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